Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inning

/ˈɪnɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.83 in modern English

Syllables: in-ning
IPA: /ˈɪnɪŋ/

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.

noun

A similar period of play.

noun

A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.

noun

A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.

noun

The gathering of a crop; harvesting.

Obsolete

noun

Lands recovered from the sea.

Obsolete

verb

present participle and gerund of inn

Example Sentences

"It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch."
"We batted around in our half of the inning."
"We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market."
"[…] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]"
"One of the earliest ‘innings’ of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest,‥has been ever since called Becket's Innings, as this Archbishop has the credit of promoting it."

Etymology

Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

innings (plural)

Phrases

extra inning ninth-inning seventh inning stretch first half of an inning second half of an inning

Frequently Paired Words

first half of an inning second half of an inning

Synonyms

frame

Rhymes With

beginning winning spinning grinning thinning pinning sinning binning dinning finning ginning cyning

Questions

How do you pronounce inning?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪnɪŋ/.
What does inning mean?: A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
Where does inning come from?: Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.

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